Film Studies from University of Salford. NSS 2024 ratings: teaching 100%; support for students 100%

Josh, Joe, Will and guests Jorge and Jackson share their favourite animated films and their reasons for loving anime. Joe and Will disagree about The Wild Robot.

Josh, Joe and Will share their top horror films. Joe reviews The Substance. Joe B shares his love for the SAW franchise.

Josh, Joe and Will bring some hot-off-the-press news about Superman and The Apprentice. Joe and Will have a disagreement about Joker (no students were hurt in the making of this podcast). And Jack has a controversial opinion on Spiderman. Tune in for a lively discussion with our final year Film Studies students.

Alex Garside discusses the phenomenon of J-Horror (and horror from select other South East Asian countries) with Asian horror expert, Dan Hey. Dan runs a horror module at UOS for a range of media students, and also helps to deliver 'Cinema Asia' on our very own degree programme. Alex is one of our third year students, a professed Asian horror fan, and a regular contributor to this podcast....

University of Salford BA Film Studies Podcast Episode 9: Martin chats to some of the new second years about their enthusiasms for the year ahead, and for what they saw this summer that really grabbed them. Spoiler: it is a very esoteric mix! We think this means we are doing something right... Thankyou to ERIN, SAM, BEN and JUDE.  Erin mentioned a John Carpenter marathon. Link to Chapeltown Pi...

Welcome to the eighth episode from the Film Studies folks at the University of Salford! Find a 2022 Open Day to attend: https://www.salford.ac.uk/undergraduate/open-days Martin introduces another great first year student, Sam Clark . Sam is a keen reviewer, and has chosen three films from cinemas and IPlayer that circulated last month (Feb. 2022) and will let us know if they are worth catching. Mo...

Welcome to the seventh episode, and the first episode of 2022 from Film Studies at University of Salford! Find an Open Day to attend (next one, January 22nd 2022): https://www.salford.ac.uk/open-days  Martin introduces two of our first year students, Alex Garside and Benjamin Vincent, who have a conversation shedding light on some of the best “buried gems” that they have found in Netflix. To...

Martin is joined by Will Vickers, a new Third Year student, to discuss the experience of being able to actually return to the cinema during Summer 2021. Will and Martin talk over some of the mainstream offerings that both studios and streamers have put forward since the Spring. The films we discuss are principally: Black Widow, Nomadland  (in theatres/ Disney Plus) Luca (Disney Plus), The Mit...

Liz and Sophia join Martin to answer a few questions about their experience of the Film Studies degree, from what their favourite aspect was, to what crucial lesson they learned that they would pass on to a new student. Liz and Sophia also talk a little about their Dissertations, and how studying on the course has affected their film viewing habits. Speaking of which, Liz mentioned F.W. Murnau's m...

Matt Trundle, one of our third year students, joined me (via Zoom) on a very hot day to share with me his observations about how the borders between television and the cinematic feature seem to be slipping and changing. Thanks Matt, for a fascinating conversation! A few things that are mentioned in the episode. Salford students have access to the first two via the library, and the final one is ope...

Pete teaches the second year 'Comedy and British Cinema' module here at Salford University, which has a fine tradition of engaging in the academic study and practice of comedy ( https://www.salford.ac.uk/salford-school-arts-media-and-creative-technology ). Pete's students have supplied him with questions to ask of comedy specialist Dr. Tomsett. In a very wide-ranging conversation they discuss: whi...

Students and staff of the BA Film Studies programme in the School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology discuss all aspects of the ever-changing cinematic world, with occasional guests. FILM MUSIC... AND MUSIC IN FILM. Part 1! Spike Knight from our first year group joins Martin to talk about favourite film scores. Martin surprisingly (!) picks a Marvel movie to review, and Spike picks a Star Wars...

Welcome to our very first episode! We sat down in late September to discuss the current turbulent state of cinema and what we felt the signs might be for the imminent future. (Note, this discussion took place before the second postponement of No Time to Die as well as news about the Cineworld chain). BA Film Studies at the University of Salford: a 100% student-rated course! (NSS, 2020) - find out...